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This week, Amanda discusses Luster by Raven Leilani.

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Amanda and Jenn discuss talking cats, dog books for toddlers, defeating internalized racism and sexism, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Moloka‘i by Alan Brennert (rec’d by Lauren)

The Moon–Spinners by Mary Stewart (rec’d by Kelly)

A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes and Ariadne by Jennifer Saint (rec’d by Hannah)

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina comics by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Robert Hack

The Song of the Lioness Quartet (Alanna: The First Adventure #1) by Tamora Pierce

If We Were Villains by ML Rio (tw: domestic violence)

The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma (tw: death by suicide, lots of body-shaming)

Snowed In by Rachel Hawthorne

Once Upon A River by Bonnie Jo Campbell (tw: violence against women and children including rape, graphic violence, drug abuse)

Mia Mayhem series (#1 Mia Mayhem is a Superhero) by Kara West and Leeza Hernandez

Chronicles of Claudette (Giants, Beware! #1) by Jorge Aguirre and Rafael Rosado et al

Stormy by Guojing

Zorro and Mister Bud (Say Hello to Zorro!) by Carter Goodrich

Better Off Red by Rebekah Weatherspoon

Iron & Velvet by Alexis Hall

For the Love of Men by Liz Plank

Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

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This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed.

Content warnings: harm to children incl. child death, racism, body horror

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Alexis Hall (Affair of the Mysterious Letter)

Ada Hoffmann (The Outside)

Victor LaValle (Ballad of Black Tom)

NK Jemisin (City We Became)

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Amanda and Jenn discuss non-boring literary fiction, books set in Jamaica, unreliable narrators, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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Old Man’s War by John Scalzi (rec’d by Ericka)

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Wild Rain by Beverly Jenkins

Earthsinger Chronicles by L. Penelope (#1 Song of Blood and Stone)

Sacred Hunt (Hunter’s Oath) & Sun Sword series by Michelle West (rec’d by Liberty)

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson (cw: death by suicide, addiction, child neglect, racism and racial violence against Native peoples)

Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn (tw homophobia)

Augustown by Kei Miller (cw via StoryGraph: polite brutality, racial violence)

Summer and Bird by Katherine Catmull

The Fairyland series (Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland) by Cat Valente (cw: mention of child abuse)

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Trust Exercise by Susan Choi (rec’d by Jess)

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This week on the Handsell, Amanda recommends Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala.

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Amanda and Jenn discuss mythology retellings, shifter romance, books about Greece and Hawaii, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

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This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith (rec’d by Brooke)

Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch (rec’d by Sophie)

The Switch by Beth O’Leary and The City We Became by NK Jemisin (rec’d by Cari)

Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn

The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig

The Wolf of Oren-Yaro by K.S. Villoso

The Poppy War by RF Kuang (with ALL the trigger warnings)

The Seafarer’s Kiss by Julia Ember

Burning Roses by S.L. Huang

Bears Behaving Badly by MaryJanice Davidson

Mating The Huntress by Talia Hibbert

The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett by Annie Lyons

The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt

My Family and other Animals by Gerald Durrell

Eurydice Street by Sofka Zinovieff

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (tw: harm to children, sexual assault, racism)

Love in Color by Bolu Babalola

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